The 9-Point Email Verification Checklist for Teams That Send at Volume.

Your bounce rate is the receipt, not the bill. The real charge lands on the reputation that decides whether your next send reaches the inbox at all.

The Dead List: Nine Checks — the free 17-page email verification checklist by Verifox, shown as a hardcover book

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The manual

What is inside the book

Seven parts, fifty-six pages. Open any one of them — the cover page on the left, what it covers on the right.

Part One. The Problem Nobody Audits. Your list is decaying right now — and almost nobody measures it. Not because the number is hard to get, but because no one has ever been asked for it. List decay runs 2–3% per month, compounding into a fifth of the list in a year.. Two costs, landing in different places — only one shows up in a report with your name on it.. An anatomy of the five kinds of dead address.. Why last year’s cleaning does not count.. Pages 10–16
Part One cover page: The Problem Nobody Audits

Part One · Summary

The Problem Nobody Audits

Your list is decaying right now — and almost nobody measures it. Not because the number is hard to get, but because no one has ever been asked for it.

  • 01List decay runs 2–3% per month, compounding into a fifth of the list in a year.
  • 02Two costs, landing in different places — only one shows up in a report with your name on it.
  • 03An anatomy of the five kinds of dead address.
  • 04Why last year’s cleaning does not count.

Pages 10–16

The proof

The checks a syntax tool cannot run

The manual explains these checks one at a time. Here is what they return — the exchange, the response codes, the verdict.

03 · WIRE. SMTP handshake. [email protected], score 100 Valid, verified in 280ms. connect: 220. EHLO: 250 Hello. MAIL FROM: 250 Sender OK. RCPT TO: 250 2.1.5 Recipient OK. the reply the verdict turns on. Mailbox proven. Syntax Valid format, MX Record Microsoft 365, SMTP Connect Connected, Inbox Exists Confirmed, Catch-All Validates recipients, Disposable Legitimate domain, Role Address Personal address, Free Provider Business domain, Domain Age 1y old, SPF Record found, DMARC Policy found, DKIM Signature found.

The short answer

Who is Verifox to make such promises?

We did not write this manual from research. We wrote it from the engine — the same nine checks that run on every address passing through Verifox, free tier and paid API alike.

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